tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9202849355254208824.post6716697064960191942..comments2016-12-02T17:42:27.048-05:00Comments on Marvel Comics of the 1980s: 1987 - Jim Lee's Correspondence With Marvel ComicsJason Shayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326506125878276176noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9202849355254208824.post-19476563345453608302013-10-30T16:31:53.926-04:002013-10-30T16:31:53.926-04:00I didn&#39;t comment on this earlier in the week, ...I didn&#39;t comment on this earlier in the week, but what a find! This is one of the coolest, most interesting things I&#39;ve ever seen on your blog (and that&#39;s entirely a compliment on how awesome this post is, since the overall quality of the blog is top-notch). When you consider how big of a star Jim Lee became not too long after this, it&#39;s absolutely insane to think that he was getting this kind of criticism. Great reads, all, though! I only wish we could see the accompanying work (especially the hands; he really seems to have had a problem with hands).<br /><br />Intriguingly, some of the comments still apply. Particularly, &quot;your figures tend to be stiff, and unrealistic&quot; from the third letter down. I don&#39;t know about &quot;unrealistic;&quot; all comic book art is &quot;unrealistic&quot; to some extent. But &quot;stiff;&quot; man alive. He still falls into the &quot;posing&quot; of characters for one- and two-page spreads, where they look very stiff, as if there is no action going on, but rather that they are just standing for panels. The one and only New-52 thing I own (it was a gift from a friend who&#39;s a DC-zombie, for ol&#39; Marvel-zombie me) is the first arc of Justice League. And every single character who&#39;s introduced, he&#39;s posed in very stiff, very non-fluid ways - as if they&#39;re posing for a picture.<br /><br />All that being said, he&#39;s a wonderful artist. And his designs of the X-Men, which were reflected in the 1990s cartoon, he has forever-shaped &quot;my&quot; version of the X-Men.Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15304178130464809737noreply@blogger.com